Why Some Kids Hate Math
Does your child hate Math? I remember an exercise during my training to be a math educator: I was given 3 sticks to make a triangle. Piece of cake. I was then given 2 more sticks to make a 2nd triangle. No problem.
Counting with Fingers – Is it Bad?
Is it bad to rely on your fingers to count ? Here’s the short answer: counting on your fingers is helpful for a 4 year old child, but spells trouble for a child beyond first grade .. Here’s why. Reason #1: It Drags You Down By the time you are in Middle School, math teachers expect you to know addition, subtraction backward and forward at a clip. When a teacher is explaining algebra on the board, she expects to teach the concept, not slow down for the addition and subtraction in the process. A student who gets dragged down in the ...
Reading and Mathing with your kids
Educated parents that we are, we start reading to our kids from when they were infants. (Know moms who start reading to the baby in the womb?) We've been told that children who read early and read well usually grow up in homes that read. So, we do a great job reading to them. Are you doing as great a job mathing with them? It's not different from reading. Remember how you'd read street signs, cereal boxes, leave short notes in their lunch packs - anything that's readable, you'll make it part of their everyday? ...
Math Worksheets – Ineffective ways to use them
Are there ineffective ways of using Math Worksheets. Do you use math workbooks or worksheets to supplement your child's math learning at home? Math worksheets are essential to develop math skills. They can take a student from learning to mastery, from slow thoughtful application to speedy execution, turn new math muscles into solid math skills - IF employed effectively. Math worksheets and work books can be purchased online, and retail stores like Walmart and Costco. That's the easiest part. I've seen many well-meaning parents invest in the time and money to purchase these math workbooks then wonder why the idea ...
Addition Facts: 99 + 99 + 99
What?! 99 + 99 + 99 is not in your addition facts? How would you compute that? Math Addition facts are great to pick up speed on adding numbers. At our Math Learning Center, we love to challenge kids just one step further. The video below showed how our Chief Instructional Officer Larry Martinek makes adding 99 + 99 + 99 make sense to a grown adult. No, it's not adding them up in vertical columns or adding it up one at a time and memorizing the subtotals. It's easier than that. Kids who can ...
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